Welcome to the Home Organizing for Beginners podcast.
In today’s episode I’ll share what you are missing from your home organizing strategy that prevents you from actually getting and staying organized.
Let me give you a super short introduction in case you’re new.
Hi! I’m Tammy. I’m a busy wife and mom with a household to manage just like you.
For most of my kids infant to tween years I experienced debilitating self doubt in how I managed all the things at home and work because of the perfection our society seems to expect of us as moms. I had nothing in my toolbox to combat that self doubt and perfectionism and I suspect you don’t either.
After finally recognizing that my home wasn’t the peaceful home I wanted it to be, I began to research what I could do about it. Through a really sad event I found myself at church. At that time I hadn’t realized the connection between my desire to make changes in my home and winding up at church, but God does work in mysterious ways!
In this podcast you’ll get tangible and simple instructions about home organizing, cleaning and time management. Instructions that keep you, your family, your current season of life at the core; all while glorifying God in the process so that you and your family can finally feel true peace and joy.
Buckle up and listen in because we’re getting right to the point.
What is missing from your home organizing strategy?
Community
I have a friend that keeps telling me to offer you all an option to get support through a community feature. I haven’t listened until now.
The reason that I’m going to make this happen is because when I recently wrote a newsletter for my subscribers, what I wrote made me realize that it was community support that I received years ago that spurred a really big positive change in my life.
I’ll share more about that soon, but I want you to consider what joining other moms working on the same things can do to help you.
First, I think you’re like me and struggle to ask for help. Especially from people you know! Asking in a community where you know that you’re all in it together gives you a boost and the confidence to just ask!
Second, sometimes we get stuck. We can’t figure out what the best next steps are. We can’t figure out why we want to keep a maternity top or if we HAVE to get rid of it. The community can help us explore what is making us stuck and how to move past it.
Third, when you’re in community with others similar to you, you find out that you aren’t alone. You learn that you aren’t the only one that struggles to keep your household neat and orderly. We need this because in our society right now we see the images of perfection. Whether it’s from Pinterest, Facebook, TikTok. Even when we walk into a friend's home and it’s so clean and inviting. We desire that. We wonder what’s wrong that we can’t have a home that looks like that.
Honestly, there are so many reasons I could share with you, why being part of a community of like minded moms also working to get their homes organized and finally find true peace. In the interest of time and to help you consider this more I want to share a bit about what participating in a community did for me.
Looking back at this experience I’m going to share with you, I have made the decision that I’m going to create a community where we can discuss all things related to managing our homes and just how we can create an atmosphere where our families feel true peace and joy.
To join the community, please subscribe. Select the option that works best for you.
I’m going to read from the newsletter what made me realize that I had to create this community. I’ll put a link to the full newsletter in the show notes as well if you want to read it all. It’s titled A Letter to Your Heart From Mine.
Somewhere in 2015 I got involved in an MLM and though money would never actually be made, the community aspect was so beneficial. At the urging of a friend in this community I began listening to podcasts. The podcasts grew to listening to books on audio. These things began to change me and the way that I looked at myself.
More than anything I became aware that I was sabotaging my own peace and joy.
I began to realize the level of damage my pursuit of perfection was having on my relationships with my husband and children. I felt so alone in everything because of my own actions and my own thoughts.
The awareness pushed me to continue reading, researching and studying what I could do to change my mindset. Over time my mindset did shift away from pursuing perfection. Instead, I began to pursue knowledge and ways to implement what I was learning whether it was different parenting techniques or how to give myself a break.
My confidence in my own knowledge grew in how I managed my home. I began to believe that I was actually a pretty good mom and wife.
That’s what I have for you today. I pray that what I shared with you today will help you work towards the peaceful home that you desire. Have a fun and productive weekend. I’ll be back here next week sharing tangible and simple instructions about home organizing, cleaning and time management. See you then.
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